Ep. 101 The Lady Eve

On this episode, The Pink Smoke welcomes back podcaster and
physical media maven Brian Saur to bite into the succulent apple
that is The Lady Eve. The gleaming center of an unparalleled
four-year, 7-movie run of masterpieces from the peerless Preston
Sturges, Eve strikes an immaculate balance of comedy that is high
and low brow, impressions of love both cynical and romantic, and a
leading lady who's positively anything but good and positively
anything but bad. With a top-to-bottom phenomenal cast including
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette and
William Demarest breathing life into Sturges' brilliant dialogue
and deftly executing his pratfalls, it's hard to argue against this
movie being the pinnacle of Hollywood's age of slapstick. Along
with co-host Elric Kane on the Pure Cinema Podcast, Brian
originated the phrase "handshake film" to describe great movies
that are easy for fellow cineastes to bond over and The Lady Eve is
certainly that. Like Brian, hosts Christopher Funderburg and John
Cribbs are huge Sturges fans who find every frame of Eve
irresistible, so this episode quickly turns into a gush session in
which they quote favorite lines, deconstruct favorite scenes and
have a great time doing it! Just the Discs on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCffVK8TcUyjCpr0F9SpV53g The Pink
Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com Brian Saur on Twitter:
twitter.com/bobfreelander Pure Cinema Podcast on Twitter:
twitter.com/PureCinemaPod The Pink Smoke on Twitter:
twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter:
twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter:
twitter.com/cfunderburg Intro music: Unleash the Bastards / “Tea
for Two” Outro music: Marcus Pinn / “Vegas"